Upper-Right is the oppressor races who do nothing but evil. Lower-left is The People. The future is the Lower-Left:

Enjoy Southern Rhodesia, or "Zimbabwe" as it is labeled on your (somewhat geographically and religiously inaccurate) map. I can't be the only person who is very much looking forward to your reports from there. Let me know if you need help with the air fare.

Revelation 21:8

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Originally Posted by Social ConstructSycophantic drivel removed so no one has to read it twice

The important point to be realized here is that none of those people are going to go to Heaven and neither are you.

Heaven never enters the thoughts of secular-rationalists who probably did that chart. Did anyone notice the way lines were drawn arbitrarily to not group countries obviously clustered together? South Korea, Russia and Moldova, for example? Chile, Malaysia, Turkey? Not even the categories are consistent. Malaysia for instance has sharia enclaves able to gazump the federal courts yet is grouped NOT as islamist but with Cyprus, Thailand and Poland in SOUTH.ASIA.

(summary: even if you want to go to the Fedral Court, the State based mullahs will not allow you to do so and the Court of Appeal must kowtow to Syariah authority.)

But not "Islamic" ………r ii i i ght.

Another chart was linked in with that nonsense, similar gobbledygook announcing what the conclusion was going to be before you'd even looked at it so the idea is that you don't and prate the header in conversation but it isn't conversation really is it.

I looked at the chart. The graphics were atrocious so I cleaned it up a bit and added some yellow rings:

Looks like they flicked some cake mix against the wall and drew a line through it – but say you didn't just want to parrot "People in more unequal countries trust each other less?" Maybe you'd notice at the 40% level (I've added the yellow rings) some widely divergent places, according to the chart, having almost identical levels of trust. Quite the opposite of what the chart was supposed to show.

There was a very obvious absence, too. All those places in perpetual poverty where everyone's starving to death. OK, there might be a couple pocketing all the foreign aid but they're both in Monaco or Dubai swanning around in gold plated sports cars if they can get out of the bordello long enough to remember where they put the keys. The rest of them are murdering one another like it's going out of fashion. Equal? Yes. Trust? Not even long enough to grab the nearest machete. On the chart? No.

I'm not going to argue with the trend line - The last time I tried connect-the-dots the result I got was even sloppier.

My argument would be that they are confusing cause and effect. People are willing to share and care with relatives and psudo-reletives (fictive kinship) if they have a reputation for returning the favor. Or if you're facing the threat of public execution by hungry lion.

As for this example of gerrymandering:

Simply recoloring it by average skin tone would be more illuminating. Especially the top, which would outright glow.

I'm not supposed to go there, that's colonization. They are supposed to come here, that's diversity.

Trigger Warning: the text you have just read may have caused: flashbacks to historical oppression, normalization of whiteness, hegemonic hyper-masculinity (if I must say so myself), assumption of genders, species, and/or status as a living being, other problematic sins which are yet to be discovered and outlawed but I should still be (eventually) punished for.

We in Freehold have studied the diversity issue to see if there may be a way to satisfy this national obsession with it while preserving our mandate to follow the Bible. We have decided our diversity will be in the heights of people. There are people of many heights in Freehold and all of them, except midgets, have equal opportunity.

Isaiah 24:1-3 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty (2)...as the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. (3) The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken his word.

I thought I saw it on the border between South Asia and Latin America? That would place it about the middle of the Pitcairn Islands, in the green section.

In between Cyprus and Zambia on the map, I think? That makes sense.

Revelation 21:8

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

On this topic of diversity, I admit most of our residents in Freehold are blond and fair skinned like people in Northern Europe. We are to a person Baptists.

But, if there were no diversity whatsoever everyone would look exactly the same. This is not the case in Freehold. I know almost everyone who lives in the city and can distinguish each one. That is our testament to diversity.

Isaiah 24:1-3 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty (2)...as the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. (3) The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken his word.

[M]y department is made up of 27 Chinese guys, 2 Chinese women, an Eh'rab and me (186 freckles last count). All the heads are Chinese. Most of the senior staff are Chinese. All the heads of neighboring departments are Chinese. To do my part for diversity I'll try to find a Chinese person to replace me.

First off, this individual needs to stop oppressing the minorities in his workplace - I know it's in his nature, but stop it. Second, I think I've found his replacement. Two in fact, available very cheaply. Just don't read their CVs or look at their work very closely (shouldn't be a problem for his diverse bosses).

American scientist Frances Arnold, who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry, has retracted her latest paper.
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It has been retracted because the results were not reproducible, and the authors found data missing from a lab notebook.
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Science published a note outlining why it would be retracting the paper, which Ms Arnold co-authored with Inha Cho and Zhi-Jun Jia.
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"It is painful to admit, but important to do so. I apologize to all. I was a bit busy when this was submitted, and did not do my job well."

Being "a bit busy" is of course academic slang for drinking latte in the Faculty Club while 27 imported sweat laborers churn out fine science in the basement. Who cares about quality, feel the quantity! Mmmm. Truly shocking that the work was irreproducible [incidentally this word should be on the American language test]. But don't fret - it was just a freak one-off random occurrence that could only happen once, and if it happened more than once each case is unique and different and can't be compared.

First off, this individual needs to stop oppressing the minorities in his workplace - I know it's in his nature, but stop it. Second, I think I've found his replacement. Two in fact, available very cheaply. Just don't read their CVs or look at their work very closely (shouldn't be a problem for his diverse bosses).

Of the three authors of that paper, if I were looking for diversity I'd be inclined to hire the third woman. You don't get much more diverse than a disgraced female Nobel prizewinner who's either too idle to read the papers she puts her name to or too incompetent to understand them.

Revelation 21:8

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Of the three authors of that paper, if I were looking for diversity I'd be inclined to hire the third woman. You don't get much more diverse than a disgraced female Nobel prizewinner who's either too idle to read the papers she puts her name to or too incompetent to understand them.

Yes. It's possible she didn't even know about it - plausible deniability and all - there's probably an additional layer of diverse managers that oversee the diverse labor force, freeing up the Nobel Prize winner to remain a bit busy. However, owning up to something instead of throwing people under the bus is a worrying trait. Next.